From the course: Creating a Fixed-Layout EPUB
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Preparing the file
The 2014 release of InDesign CC has brought us a fantastic new feature. If you go down to the File menu and choose Export, we now have two choices for exporting this. Reflowable, in older versions of InDesign it would just say EPUB and it meant reflowable. But now look at this. We have Fixed Layouts right from InDesign. This is a 1.0 feature as they say. This is the first time it's come out. And I'm sure that there's going to be tweaks made to the output. But as it is, it does a really good job. The best part is that there's absolutely no prep needed to the file. We can just choose Export. Everything that you see on the page gets exported including stuff from the master page, footers and so on. It supports transparency. It does not support hyperlinks yet, not at this recording. So you'd have to add those down the road. It does support font embedding. In fact, that's probably the only preparation step that you need to do, is to make sure that all your fonts are up to date and that…
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